“The Kiss Heard Round the World”

It’s nice to know a kiss still matters. In the midst of the bizarre riots in Vancouver, BC after the Game 7 loss in the Stanley Cup Finals by the beloved Canucks, riots broke out across the beautiful city.

Rich Lam/Getty Images took the photo, and told the London Guardian “I was about 20 or 30 yards away,” he said. “There were these two people on the ground in this empty street. Initially I thought one of them was hurt.I knew I had captured a ‘moment’ when I snapped the still forms against the backdrop of such chaos but it wasn’t until later when I returned to the rink to file my photos that my editor pointed out that the two people were not hurt, but kissing.”